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We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

Jean de La Fontaine

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By the work one knows the workman.
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Fame Identity Oneself Work
A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.
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Deliver Expectation Loud Mountain Noise
It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.
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Father Impossible World
I bend and do not break.
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Break Flexible One Liner
It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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Future Possession Value Worth
Cats know not how to pardon.
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Cat Forgiveness Known One Liner
Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
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Burden Ourselves Secret
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Friendship Love Rare True
How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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Dangerous God Promise Remember
It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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Charitable Goodness Gratitude Misery
Gentleness succeeds better than violence.
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Gentle Success Violence
People who make no noise are dangerous.
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Dangerous Noise People
Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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Grace Talent
Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.
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Cold Dreams Fake Man Reality Truth
He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
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Himself Known Universe
We are never content with our lot.
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Ourselves Satisfaction

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